News from the Edge Series by Mark Sumner

Combining mystery, science fiction, and '90's tabloid sensibility, here's a unique approach to a popular genre. Sure, Savannah "Savvy" McKinnon, maybe people were killed by the lake monster known as Big Jelly--or maybe not. If there's a cover-up to be exposed, she's just the one to do it.

It's a normal day at the Global Query--calls, calls, calls--from a housewife menaced by her appliances . . . a farmer with a volcano in his apple orchard . . . a man with snow geese in his toilet . . . and, of course, a guy talking to God through his TV. Typical. Until Savvy realizes that all the calls came from the same town in Illinois.

WEIRD!SHOCKING!BIZARREVAMPIRE MURDERED--SAVES ON COFFIN EXPENSES!Global Query ace reporter Savvy McKinnon is in Vermont to verify the existence of Count Yorga, an alleged nosferatu. While conducting her "interview with the vampire," the supposed immortal drops dead--after biting her on the arm! Now Savvy's feeling funny--pale, tired, sensitive to the sun... moreWEIRD!SHOCKING!BIZARREVAMPIRE MURDERED--SAVES ON COFFIN EXPENSES!Global Query ace reporter Savvy McKinnon is in Vermont to verify the existence of Count Yorga, an alleged nosferatu. While conducting her "interview with the vampire," the supposed immortal drops dead--after biting her on the arm! Now Savvy's feeling funny--pale, tired, sensitive to the sun. And when the "vampire's" body mysteriously disappears from the morgue, Savvy has to find out the truth behind the Count's fantastical fiction, before she becomes a Global Query headline!Savvy McKinnon is a reporter with a nose for the truth. That's why working for the Global Query, one of America's most notorious tabloids, is only temporary... she hopes. Savvy knows that 99% of her work is fiction. But she also knows that amid the army of two-headed Elvises and Bigfoot weddings lurks that other 1%. And it's her job to find it... less